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For intense periods of our lives, we suffer the agony of unrequited love.
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Our sorrow is accompanied by a certainty that if only the elusive being would return our smiles, come for dinner or marry us, we would know bliss.
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Epochal happiness seems tantalizingly close, wholly real and yet maddeningly out of reach.
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At such moments, we are often counseled to try to forget the beloved.
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We should, given their lack of interest, try to think of someone or something else.
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Yet this kindness is deeply misguided.
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The cure for love does not lie in ceasing to think of the fugitive lover,
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but in learning to think more intensely and constructively about who they might really be.
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From close up, every human who's ever lived proves deeply challenging.
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We are all at close quarters trying propositions.
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short-tempered, vain, deceitful, crass, sentimental, woolly, cold, over-emotional and chaotic.
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What prevents us from holding all this in mind in relation to certain people is simply a lack of knowledge.
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We assume, on the basis of a few charming outside details, that the target of our passion may miraculously have escaped the fundamentals of the human condition.
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They haven't.
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We We just haven't got to know them properly.
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This is what makes unrequited love so intense, long-lasting and vicious.
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By preventing us from properly growing close to them,
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the beloved also prevents us from tiring of them in the cathartic and liberating manner that is the gift of requited love.
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It isn't their charms that are keeping us magnetised, it is our lack of knowledge of their flaws.
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The cure for unrequited love is in structure, therefore very simple.
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We must get to know them better.
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The more we discovered of them, the less they would ever look like the solution to all our problems.
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We would discover the endless small ways in which they were irksome.
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We'd get to know how stubborn, how critical, how cold, and how hurt by things that strike us as meaningless they could be.
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That is, if we got to know them better, we'd realise how much they had in common with everyone else.
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Passion can never withstand too much exposure to the full reality of another person.
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The unbounded admiration on which it's founded is destroyed by the knowledge which a properly shared life inevitably brings.
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The cruelty of unrequited love isn't really that we haven't been loved back.
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Rather, it's that our hopes have been aroused by someone who can never disappoint us, someone who we will have to keep believing in because we lack the knowledge that would set us free.
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We must, in the absence of a direct cure, undertake an imaginative one.
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We must accept, without quite knowing the details, that they would, of course, eventually prove decisively irritating.
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Everyone does.
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We have to believe this not because we know it exactly of them, but because they are in the end human and we know this dark
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but deeply cheering fact about everyone who has ever lived.
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Thank you.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau C1 is gebaseerd op de video “The Cure for Unrequited Love”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: unrequited, lack, knowledge, cure, deeply. Deze video bevat 35 zinnen en 509 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 3:26. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 148 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. Slechts 81% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is pittig.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| unrequited bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˌʌn.ɹɪˈkwaɪ.tɪd/ | onbeantwoord |
| arouse werkwoord | /əˈɹaʊz/ | opwekken |
| cathartic bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /kəˈθɑɹtɪk/ | louterend, bevrijdend |
| deceitful bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /dɪˈsiːtfʊl/ | bedrieglijk, vals |
| elusive bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ɪˈl(j)u.sɪv/ | ongrijpbaar |
| irksome bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈɜɹksəm/ | vervelend |
| irritate werkwoord | /ˈɪɹ.ɪˌteɪt/ | irriteren |
| liberate werkwoord | /ˈlɪbəˌɹeɪt/ | bevrijden |
| magnetized bijvoeglijk naamwoord | gemagnetiseerd | |
| requite werkwoord | /ɹəˈkwaɪt/ | belonen |
| sentimental bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˌsɛntiˈmɛntl̩/ | emotioneel |
| fugitive zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈfjuːd͡ʒɪtɪv/ | vluchteling, vluchtelinge |
| admiration zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌæd.məˈɹeɪ.ʃən/ | bewondering |
| flaw zelfstandig naamwoord | /flɔ/ | barst, barstje |
| agony zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈæɡ.ə.ni/ | ondraaglijke pijn |
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Voorwaardelijke zinnen if + zin, will/would + werkwoord — een voorwaarde en het gevolg | if only the elusive being would return |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | is accompanied · are often counseled · is destroyed |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | have escaped · haven't been loved · have been aroused |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | someone who can · everyone who has |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 7 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals haven't, isn't, we'd. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: cathartic /kəˈθɑɹtɪk/, withstand /wɪðˈstænd/
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: admiration /ˌæd.məˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, vicious /ˈvɪʃəs/, proposition /ˌpɹɑpəˈzɪʃən/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: unrequited /ˌʌn.ɹɪˈkwaɪ.tɪd/, decisively /dɪˈsaɪsɪvli/, imaginative /ɪˈmæd͡ʒɪnətɪv/, miraculously /məˈɹækjələsli/, admiration /ˌæd.məˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: unrequited /ˌʌn.ɹɪˈkwaɪ.tɪd/, arouse /əˈɹaʊz/, elusive /ɪˈl(j)u.sɪv/, imaginative /ɪˈmæd͡ʒɪnətɪv/, misguided /ˌmɪsˈɡaɪdɪd/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: imaginative /ɪˈmæd͡ʒɪnətɪv/, miraculously /məˈɹækjələsli/, admiration /ˌæd.məˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, agony /ˈæɡ.ə.ni/, withstand /wɪðˈstænd/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: misguided /ˌmɪsˈɡaɪdɪd/, agony /ˈæɡ.ə.ni/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Spreek zin voor zin na op normale snelheid en herhaal elke zin tot je ritme gelijk is aan dat van de spreker.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als unrequited, arouse, cathartic.
Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?
Shadowing is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde taalleermethode die oorspronkelijk is ontwikkeld voor professionele tolkentraining en gepopulariseerd door polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. De methode is eenvoudig maar krachtig: je luistert naar native Engelse audio en herhaalt het onmiddellijk hardop — als een schaduw die de spreker volgt met slechts 1–2 seconden vertraging. In tegenstelling tot passief luisteren of grammaticadrills, dwingt shadowing je hersenen en mondspieren om echte spraakpatronen tegelijkertijd te verwerken en te reproduceren. Onderzoek toont aan dat het de uitspraaknauwkeurigheid, intonatie, ritme, verbonden spraak, luisterbegrip en spreekvaardigheid aanzienlijk verbetert — waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.